Hygienic offers sounds all around

Daphne Lee Martin and her band Raise the Rent will be part of Saturday's Rock Fix.

Published January 26. 2012 12:01AM

You might be tempted to say the live music aspects of Hygienic Art Weekend have become bigger than the gallery show itself. They're not; the sheer, weird wonderfulness of the exhibition couldn't be trumped if Pearl Jam set up on the corner of Bank and Golden Saturday night and serenaded the whole town.

Let's just say, rather, that the tangential tuneage is a nice and loud complement in the perfect spirit of the whole event.

The anchoring concert, of course, is the Hygienic Rock Fix, taking place Saturday in the Crocker House Ballroom.

This year's edition is a fine cross-section of styles and bands, and scheduled are New London groups The Hempsteadys, Suicide Dolls, Recur Occurrence and Daphne Lee Martin & Raise the Rent. Also on the bill are The 'Mericans from Providence and Mystic's Herff Jones. Oh, and look forward to a return-to-hometown set by The Can Kickers.